Over the course of the last year the unemployment rate in Boston has been rising steadily. Although the Bureau of Labor Statistics has yet to release April’s jobless rate, March’s remained the same as February’s percentage, but both were more significant higher than the rates of the same months in 2008. In March of last year only 4.3 percent of people didn’t have jobs in Boston. Still the unemployment rate remains below the 8.9 percent average of the country.
Despite the rising jobless rate, there are still Boston jobs that employers are struggling to fill. According to a recent press release from Manpower Inc., companies across the nation are having difficulty finding qualified workers for ten positions in particular.
“In the four years we have performed this research, the same positions appear on the list again and again,” said Manpower’s President of the Americas Jonas Prising in the recent release. “Despite the current economic instability and high unemployment, there are still skills that the U.S. workforce seems to lack.”